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No. 778,209. PATENTED DEC. 20, 1904. VJ. 00mm.

BOTTLE MAKING MACHINE.

' APPLIOATION FILED JULY 18, 1904.

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No. 778,209. PATENTED DEC. 20, 1904.

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BOTTLE MAKING MACHINE. APPLIGATIQN FILED JULY 18. 1904.

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Patented December 20, 1904.

UN TED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH GONDE, or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

BOTTLE-MAKING MACHINE.

I SPECIFICATION forming part of LettersPatent No. 778,209, dated December 20, 1904.

' Application filed July 18, 1904. Serial No. 217,026.

lv ials and also capable of making parts of the same, so that the articles can be finished either view of the machine.

by hand or upon some other-machine.

To this and other ends hereinafter set forth the invention comprises the improvements to be presently described and finally claimed.

The nature, characteristic featurcsamd scope of the invention will be more fully understood from the following description, taken in connection 'with the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, in which v r Figure l is atop or plan view of the machine with parts removed for the sake of clearness. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1' looking toward the right. Fig. 4. is a similar view taken on the line 4 4 of Fig. 1 looking toward the left. Fig. 5 is a similar view taken on the line 5 5 of Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a top or plan view illustrating the gas and air connections which are omitted from Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 7 is. a face view of a cam. Figs. 8 and 9 are development views of the' cam, drawn to a reduced scale. Figs. 10 and 11 are top or plan views of conical rollers. Fig. 12 is aside'view showing intermittent carrier-driving mechanism. Fig. 13 is a sectional view illustrating a detail. Fig. 14 is a sectional view taken on the line 14 14. of Fig. 1, and

Fig. 15 is an elevational viewof the neckrforming jaws. I g

' In making complete bottles or vials tubular blanks of appropriate length for. making two bottles or vials are employed. The, ends of these blanks are grooved and shaped to form the bottle-necks. The blanks are'halved and closed to form the bottoms of the bottles or vials, and if necessary or desirable the bottoms QSQ are smoothed and squared. The blanks may be fed to the machine by the inclined trough 1, having adjustable endguides, which delivers them one ata time to carriers 2, projecting from an endless chain 3. Use may also be made of guides 4, Fig. 13, arranged parallel with the chain andcut away where it is necessary to have access to the ends of the blanks. The carriers 2 may be provided with -laterally-extending fingers. as shown in Fig.

3. In this way by the action of the carriers and guides 4 the blanks are carried through the machine, or rather through that portion of the machine which operates upon their ends.

less apron or belt. These are provided with carriers 7- and serve to convey the blanks through that part of the machine. which operates upon their center portion. Y

.An incline 8, having end guides, is shown for receiving the blanks from the endlesschain apron 3 and delivering them to the divided chain or aprons 5 and 6, or rather to the carriers upon them. The finished articles may be conducted away from the machine by the chute 9, shown as having end and center guides. These chains or carriers are driven by mechanism, to be presently described, withafi'intermittent motion, so that tubes or blanks are brought to rest in position to be operated upon by the various provisions of the-machine, which will be describedthat is to say, for example, whenever the aprons stop or pause the necking devices are working upon the necks of some of the blanks, the bottoming devices are working on some of the blanks, andthe smoothing or squaring devices are also working on some of the blanks. As the apron 3 moves forward it pauses when a blank is1in operative position in respect to the necking mechanism a and when another blank is in similar position with respect to the duplicate mechanism a.

These two necking mechanisms are duplicates of each other, so that'only one, a, of them will be described. As a tube or blank is car ried forward by the apron 3 it is delivered upon the supporting-rolls 10, which are posi- There is also a pair of endless belts or 'ap'rons 5'and 6, or, at any rate, adivlded endtively driven in the same direction" by mechanism, to be presently described, and which are journaled between walls B B rising from the table A. The apron then pauses and the blank is opposite the abutment 11, Fig. 4, which is adjustably held in a .standard rising from the table A of the machine. The positioning-rolls 12, Figs. 2and 10, then descend, so that their resilient rims bear upon the blank, and their rims are beveled or made in the shape of the frustum of a cone which causes the blank to travel toward the high side or end, and thus positions the blank with one of its ends in contact withthe abutment, Fig. 4. The mechanism for operating the positioning-rolls will be presently described.

Flames are caused to play upon the end of the rotating blank which is opposite to the abutment, as from the burners 13, Fig. 6. A plug or former 14, Fig. 3, having a shoul der 15, is then projected into the end of the blank by mechanism, to be presently described, whereupon a pair of groove or neck forming jaws 16 and 17 are brought down upon theoutside of the blank, andas it rotates they form the grooved neck. The former or plug 14 isinserted farther into the blank, so that its shoulder 15 abuts upon the end and finishes or glazes it. After the neck is formed these jaws are retracted and the former is'completely withdrawn, whereupon the carrier 3 resumes its movement and the other end of the blank is made into neck form by the mechanism a. The means for operating the neck-forming jaws 16 and 1'7 will be presently described. The plug 14 and jaws 16 and 17 are located between walls as and 31 which rise from the table A. The plug-bar works through a guide 14", Fig.3,

which is ad ustably supported in a socket held between the walls a; and y.

The blanks as they leave the carrier 3 are of the general form indicated upon the incline 8 in Fig. 1. The blanks are delivered upon the aprons 5 and 6, and the latter pause opposite 'the bottoming mechanisms 1) and 6, each of which is a duplicate of the other. In this position the blanks rest upon supporting-rolls 18 and 19, Fig. 5, which are positively driven in the same direction and are rotated. The separating-rolls 20 and 21, Fig. 11, are then caused to bear upon the blank, which is also subjected to heat, as from the burners 22 and 23, Fig. 6. The edges of these separatingrolls 20 and 21 are resilient and beveled in opposite directions or cone-shaped, so that they tend to pull the blank apart at its center. The books 24, Fig. 5, enter the ends of the blanks and hook into the neck portion and are then pulled back, so as to assist in separating the two parts of the blank. During this operationthe head 25 contacts with the ends of the blank and keeps it in proper position. Subsequently the books 24 disengage the necks and are withdrawn from the interiorof the blank. The blank then consists, in effect, of

two complete vials, one traveling on the apron 5 and the other on the apron 6. Mechanism described.

The divided blank is arrested opposite the bottom-finishing mechanism 1: and c, Fig. 14, and is rotated upon supporting-rollers, which taper from the center so as to be smallest at the ends. The bottoms of the blanks are subjected to heat, as from the burner 26, and the wedge-shaped end of the linisher 27 comes down between their bottoms, while the pushers 28 and 29 operate upon the necked ends and serve to press the bottoms upon the opposite sides of the linisher 27, thus smoothing and squaring the bottoms. 'Afterward the finished bottles are delivered upon the chute 9 where two of them are represented diagrammatically. The mechanism for operating the pushers and the linisher will be presently described.

Mechanism suitable for operating the necking mechanism a will now be described.

The; plug-ban is afforded a. range of end wise motion and there is upon it an adjustable collar 30 and a spring 31, which tend to shift it toward the right in Fig. 3 and keep it in contact with the face of a cam 31, Fig. 1. The face of the cam 31 is adapted to push the plug 14 forward, permitting it to remain in that position, and then push it still farther forward, and finally permit it to return to its initial position. The neck-forming jaws 16 and 17 are carried by blocks, which are slidably mounted between the walls m and 1/ and to which they are detachably connected, so that they may be renewed or replaced by others of different sizes. These blocks have slot-and-pin connection with separately-adjustable levers pivoted at 32, each having arms 32 and operated upon by cams 33 and 34, located outside of the wall ;1 Fig. 3, to close them and each having arms 32", operated upon by cams 33 and 34 outside of the wall :0, Fig. 4, to open them. The top blocks are provided with springs which tend to keep the levers in proper engagement with the cams.

M represents stops detachably applied to the walls a and 3 Fig. 15, in range of the jaws 16 and 17 for positioning them, and incidentally keeping them clear of the plug-bar 14. The cams 33 and 34 and 33 and 34" are geared together and motion is imparted to them by beveled gears 36 and 36".

37 is ashaft positively driven by the sprocketchain 38 from the shaft 39, which in its turn is driven by the pulley 40. The cam 31 of the mechanism a is driven from the shaft 37 by means of the sprocket-chain 41, and the cam 31 of the mechanism (0' isdriven from the shaft 37 by way of the sprocket-chain 44.

45 is a shaft which carries the cam 31 and drives the beveled gears 36 of the mechanism a, and 46 is a shaft which carries the cam 31 and drives the beveled gears 36 of the mechanism af.

Thewalls Band B, between which the supporting-rolls are journaled, are adjustable in respect to the table A by means of the adjusting screws or bolts A, Figs. -3 and 4.

C, Fig. 4, is a lubricant-receptacle which may be mounted upon the wallsw and 7 so that its contents may be kept'at the proper temperature by the heat of the burners 13.

The pipe G from this receptacle is. arranged to convey lubricant to the plug 14, and the supply is made intermittent by the'valve G which is opened and closed by the spring G, and the cam C, mounted on the shaft which carries the cams 33 and 33 and. arranged to operate upona pivoted lever which in its turn opcrates upon a projection from the valve-plug.

v Mechanism for driving the supporting-rollers 10 will now. be described. Each pair of these rolls is driven by a gear-wheel 47, and these gear-wheels 47 mesh with other gearwheels, 48, mounted on shafts driven by the sprocket-chain 49, and one of these shafts in i its turnis driven from the shaft 50, and the shaft is driven from the shaft 37 by the gearing 51. The supporting-rolls for the bottoming mechanism at the left of the machine are similarly geared together and driven from the shaft 39 by the gearing 51. L

Mechanism for operating .the' positioningrolls 12; Fig. 2, will now be described. These rolls are carried by arms 52, pivoted toshafts which are driven as by a link belt 53, and power is applied to one of these shafts by the link belt 56 from the shaft 37. These shafts carry sprocket-wheels 57, which are geared to therolls, so as to drive thenf and also the earns 58. The latter cooperate with arms on bell-cranks 59, which engage pins 60 on the arms 52, so that the cams 58 turn the bell-' cranks and lift the arms 52. 61 represents back-stops for the bell-cranks.

Mechanism suitable for imparting an intermittent motion to the feed-apron 3 is fully described and illustrated in Letters Patent No. 727,294, grantedto me under date of May 5, 1903, and may be described as follows: The sprocket-wheels which carry the feed apron or conveyer 3 are mounted upon shafts of which one is provided with a gear-wheel 3, Fig. 12, which is intermittently driven by a gear-wheel 3", having only a few teeth. The so-called broken gear-wheel 3 is driven from the shaft 37 bythe gearing 3. The conveyers 5 and 6 are similarly driven from the shaft 39.

\ The mechanism which operates the separating-rolls 20 and 21 and also the finisher 27 is substantially the same as has been described with reference to the positioning-rolls and need not be described further than to say that the belts 62 and 63 are employed for conveying power. i

Mechanism will now be described for operating the books 24.

, Each hook is pivotal] y connected with a head 25, arranged upon a rod 66, slidable in a block from the shaft 39.

67, Fig. 5. The rod 66 is provided with a' spring and collar 67 which serves to hold it up against the cam-face 68 of the cam 69. The hook 24"is provided with a tail 70, which cooperates with a spring-buffer 71 and with a cam-rod 72, which is held by a spring and collar 7311p against the cam-face 74 of the cam 69. The cams 69 are driven by chains 75 and 76 Referring toFigs. 8 and 9, the portion 77 of the cam-face 68 pushes the rod 66 and head 25 inward and the portion 78 of the cam 74 likewise pushes the rod 72 inward. 'vlheeffe'ct of the latter is to hold the hook up against its back-stop 78, so that it enters the bottle-neck, even to the extent of permitting the head 25 to contact with the end of the same, as has been described. At

the'lower parts of the cams the part 79 permits the rod 72 to be raised toward the right,

hook 24* are moved inward by the high parts 80 and 81 of the cams, properly positioning the bottle, and finally by the low parts 82 and 83 of the cams the hook in contact with its backstop/78 is entirely withdrawn from the neck of the bottle. The walls E and E are adjustable in respect to the table A by means of the set screws or bolts A. The block 67 is mounted in a socket rising from the table A and made adjustable by means of the setscrew E and E is a collar adjustable on the rod66. I I

Mechanism will now be described for operating the pushers 28 and 29, Fig..14, which are slidable in heads adjustable in standards rising from the table.

84 and 85 are cams mounted upon suitable shafts chained to the main shaft 3 and journaled in suitable I bearings rising from the table A. The cams are adapted to operate upon the shanks of the pushers, which are held against the cams by springs 86, Fig. 14.

87 represents gas connections for supplying the various burners, and 88 and 89 are air connections for supplying thevarious burners, as will be seen by reference to Fig. 6. The air connections are provided with air-valves 90 and 91, which are so manipulated that the air is or may be turned off, except when it is (10-;

sired to heat the blanks.

92 and 93 are cams driven from the shafts 37 and 39 by the gearing 94 and 95 and ar- The various parts of the machine are adjustable, as has been described and shown, so as to accommodate 'the machine to operate upon blanks of various sizes appropriate for the production of vials or bottles of different dimensions.

It will be obvious to those skilled in the art to which my invention relates that modifications may be made in details without departing from the spirit thereof. Hence the invention is not limited further than may be required by the prior state of the art; but,

Having thus described the nature and objects of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. Ina machine for making glass bottles the combination of necking mechanism comprising a slidable plug and a pair of jaws movable in respect thereto and mechanism for shifting these parts, supporting-rolls, an abutment opposite-said plug, a conveyer for feeding blanks, tapering positioning-rolls, heating devices, and means for actuating said parts, substantially as described.

' 2. Ina machine for making bottles the combination of supporting-rolls, an abutment, a positioning-roll for arranging blanks in contact with the abutment, neck-making mechanism, and devices for operating said parts, substantially as described. I 4

3. In a bottle-making machine the combination of slidable jaws adapted to contact with the outside of the blank, devices for operating said jaws, and means for depositing carbon on said jaws, substantially as described.

4. In a bottle-making machine the combination of neck-forming slidable jaws, cams for operatingsaid jaws, and pivotal arms adjustable ill-respect to each other and adapted tocooperate with the cams and jaws, substantially as described.

5. In a bottle-making machine the combination of a reciprocating plug-bar, walls'on each side of the bar, neck-forming jaws slidable between said walls, means for shifting said parts, and stops applied to said walls in range of the jaws for positioning the latter,

substantially as described.

' 6. The combination of rolls arranged adjacent to each other and adapted to support a blank or tube in rolling contact and between them, means for positively driving said rolls ,in the same direction, a positioning-roll and ing mechanisms.

8. In a bottle-making machine the combi nation of supporting-rollers, hooks adapted to engage a shoulder at the ends of a blank and to pull the same apart at the center, beveled separating-rolls adapted to contact with the blank so as to pull it apart, and means for operating said parts, substantially as described.

9. In a bottle-making machine the combination of a hook adapted to engage a shoulder at the end of a blank, and means for causing said hook to engage, pull and disengage, substantially as described.

10. In a bottle-making machine the combination of means for rotating a blank, an abutment, and a beveled roller for positioning the blank in respect to the abutment, substantially as described.

11. In a bottle-making machine the combination of a Wedge-shaped finisher-bar, oppositely-beveled supporting-rollers, and pushers, substantially as described.

12. In a bottle-making machine the combination of a finisher, rollers arranged in pairs upon' opposite sides thereof for supporting blanks, pnshers for pressing the bottoms of the blanks against the finisher, and means for operating said parts, substantially as described.

13. In abottle-making machine the combination of a conveyer, neck-forming mechanisms arranged on opposite sides of said conveyer, conveyers provided with a space between them, bottonrforming mechanism located between said conveyers, means for delivering blanks from the first-mentioned conveyer to the others, and devices for operating said parts, substantially as described.

14. In a bottle-making machine the combination of neck-forming mechanism, bottomforming mechanism, a conveyer for presenting the ends of blanks to the neck-forming mechanism, conv'eyers for presenting the ends and centers of blanks to the bottom-forming mechanism, means for delivering blanks from the first-mentioned conveyer to the other, and devices for operating said parts, substantially as described.

15. In a bottle-making machine the combination of slidable rods, a hook pivoted to one of said rods and provided with a tail in range of the other of said rods, a spring-builer, and means for opera '.ng said rods to project, retract and turn the hook, substantially as described.

16. In a bottle-making machine the combination of means for applying heat at or near the center of a blank, devices for rotating the blank, and means for engaging the respective ends of the blank and pulling it apart, substantially as described.

17. A machine for making bottles or vials comprising the combination of a conveyor for presenting the ends of blanks, a trough for feeding blanks to the conveyer, sets of neckforming mechanism arranged out of alincment with each other and on opposite sides of the eonveyer and each set comprising positively-driven supporting-rollers and heating devices and plugs and jaws and operating mechanism, a pair of endless eonveyers hava ing a space bet-ween them, means for trans-' positively driven supporting rollers, abutmen'ts on=one side of each-set of rollers, neckforming mechanism on the opposite side of each set of rollers, positioning-rollers for each set of supporting-rollers, and means for operating said parts, substantially as described:

19. A machine for 'making' bottles comprising the combination of a conveyer, two sets of positively-driven supporting-rollers, abutments on one side of each set of rollers, neckforming mechanism on the opposite side of each set of rollers, positioning-rollers for each set of supporting-rollers, apair'ot conveyea's having as ace between them, means for transferring b anks from the first-mentioned con-, veyer to said pair of conveyers, two sets of supporting-rollers of which one is beveled and of which both are arranged outside of and between said pair of conve'yers, devices for hooking the ends of blanks and pulling them apart, heating means, a finisher between said conveyers', pushers cooperating with the finisher, and means for actuating said parts, substantially as described. v

20. In a machine for making bottles, a reciprocating head provided with a-pivoted hook between which and the face of the' head the bottle-necks are held, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two witnesses. JOSEPH CONDE.

Witnesses:

K. M. GILL GAN, WM. J i J AOKBON. 

